Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-03-24
The third annual sale Of the surplus

The third annual sale OF the surplus
shorthorn, Hereford and Holstein cattle,
will be held at the agricultural college
grounds on the afternoon of March 23. A
total of thirty-two head Of thoroughbreds
will be sold, including 25 shorthorns, six
Herefords and one Holstein.
Work has been commenced on the rail-
road between ST. Joseph and Battle Creek,
and it will be pushed rapidly. On April
1st the chief engineer of the road will
commence the survey to Danville, H.,
and states the trains will be running from
Sturgls TO Goshen by July 4th.
Reports from South Haven say the pros
poets for an abundant fruit crop are inn
proving as the growers make more extend
ed and thorough examination of the buds.
Locations that incline considerably to the
east are badly injured, but all other loca-
tions have received little or no injury.
A man named Il. A. West was arrested
in Detroit the other afternoon while en-
gagged in smuggling 90 boxes of opium,
worth 500, 900 across the river i'm small
boat. He was Immediately arranged be-
fore United States Commissioner Graves,
waived examination, and was locked up in
the county jail i'm default of $4,000 bail.
Louis Eckesdoffer of Belmont Kent
county, the murderer of Lena Obits, has
been lodged in Jail at Grand Rapids, hav-
ing been taken there on stretcher.. The
parting scene at home with his family was
extremely affecting, his aged mother being
nearly frantic with grief. He threatens
to destroy himself yet.
Col. Worden, land agent at Reed City,
has gone TO the upper peninsula to inveS-
tigate the heavy trespassing on govern
ment lands by lumbermen, and he expects
rich developments. He has recently been
making ii interesting for Manistee and
MuskegOn lumbermen, who have preferred
paying damages to standing suit.
Remus cOlOred man was sent To Jail
in default of fine for drunkenness. and
his widow applid to VIM Kersch, a sa-
loon keeper, for money to pay the fine and
secure her husbands release. Kersch re-
fused, whereupOn the woman laid com
plant against him for selling liquor OIL
Sunday, and the accused was convicted
and fined $40.
O.. T.. Brown of Comstock attempted Ia
cross Portage street, Kalamazoo, in front
of a Lake Shore railroad engine with
span of horses and hay rack. The engine
struck the wagon and team, killing both
horses. valued at $3.50. and completely de
molshed the wagon. Mr.. Brown was
thrown off, but escaped with badly
bruised shoulder.
The Ropes mining company held its an
nual meeting on the l2th inst, at Ishpem
ing, and reelected Julius Ropes president
with w. +. Swift, Julius Ropes. :. :
Curry, eX-MayOr Hood and w. Il. CarpeE
ter trustees. The secretary's repOI
showed S4s, 900 in gold and silver mine
last year, the average yield per ton O
rock being $500.
Josiah H. Holden, father of ex-Secre-
tary of State Holden, died in Grand Rap
ids, recently, at the advanced age of 90
years. He was one of the first settlers IN
Grand River valley and was the frs
subscriber to the first paper published in
Grand Rapids. lie has brother aged 50
and two sisters aged % and so years, re
spectively, living near Boston.
At Hitchcock & Bialy's camp near Mud
Lake, pine tree was cut that scaled s..
65S feet. Seven logs were cut, five six
teen foot logs and two fourteen foot logs.
The first three logs scaled l.272, LEO and
/, 06S feet. The tree was nearly four feet
through at the stump Another tree was
recently cut i'm the camp that made eight
sixteen foot logs. IL is very seldom that a
pine tree will work into saw logs of the
best quality l2S feet high.
The Southwestern Michigan sheep
breeders association held their annual
meeting at Kalamazoo recently. Fifty
persons from ten counties were present.
The annual shearing will be held at Kala-
maZOO, April %. Officers were elected a.
follows: President. f.. Il. Welch, Paw
Paw; vice-president, :. Ii. Hammond.
Kalamazoo: directors. +. :. Lawrence.
Battle Creek; Barney VOsburg, Galesburg:
A. w. Maring, Mendon; j. II. Skinner.
Cooper; Ed. Bissell, Richland; and Hobart
Jackson, Galesburg. Several interesting
papers were read and discussed.
No blanks are provided or needed i'm ap-
plying for a claim under Gen. CutcheOn's
muster and commission bill. Such claims
should be instituted by letter addressed t.
the adjutant general Of the army, accom-
panied, If practicable, by the claimants
discharge from prior service. his commits
sion or appointment and muster-in roll in
the grade claimed, and a statement setting
forth in detail the facts. SO far as they can
be given, upon which the claim is based.
These letters when received, will be re-
garded as filed in the adjutant generals
office, and the requisite further action will
be taken as speedily as possible.
Mrs. NJ. Lucas, aged 80, widow and
housekeeper for J. Morse, farmer of
Birch Run township, Saginaw county.
died recently, after an Illness of few
hours. Before death she asserted that
neighboring woman named TOusby gave
her paper containing white powders the
week previous. Not feeling well
she took powder and was TAX
en- with violent cramps, and only lived
thirty hours. The stomach was brought
here and an analysis developed the fact
that it contained sufficient quantity of
arsenic to cause death, and a coroner's
jury rendered verdict to that effect but
implicated no one. The deceased ascribed
no malicious motives to the party who gave
her the powder.
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